Contributed by Sermon Central on May 21, 2007
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IN A FEW DAYS WE WILL CELEBRATE MEMORIAL DAY. It was unofficially begun by women of the South during the Civil War when they placed flowers over the graves of the “men in gray.”
In 1868, General John A. Logan, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, issued an order officially
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What do Thanksgiving, Easter, Pentecost, Memorial Day, Labor Day, etc. have in common?
They are all holidays which fall not on a specific date, like, December 25 or July 4, but they fall on the “first Monday”, “fourth Thursday”, “fifty days after….”
You see what I mean?
Thanksgiving Day has a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
President Bush Speaks Words of Hope at Memorial Convocation, April 17:
People who have never met you are praying for you. They’re praying for your friends who have fallen and who are injured. There’s a power in these prayers, a real power. In times like this, we can find comfort in the grace and
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jan 19, 2009
The American Memorial Day weekend automobile race known as the Indianapolis 500 (a.k.a. Indy 500) attracts 400,000 spectators every year! It is probably the largest single sporting event that draws such a large crowd. The race requires many pit-stops – tire changes, fuel, oil, or repairs when
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
Canadian poet John McCrae was a surgeon in World War I. On December 8, 1915, he published this poem to commemorate the deaths of thousands of young men who died in Flanders during the grueling battles there.
Flanders covered southern Belgium and northwest France.)
Legend has it that he was
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 25, 2007
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Since 1971 Memorial Day has been observed annually on the last Monday in May. The purpose is to honor the nation’s military personnel killed in wartime.
The holiday was called Decoration Day at first, because people decorated soldiers’ graves with flowers and flags on that day. Today it is
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Contributed by Scott Weber on Mar 23, 2001
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In his book Fuzzy Memories, Jack Handey writes: There used to be this bully who would demand my lunch money every day. Since I was smaller, I would give it to him. Then I decided to fight back. I started taking karate lessons. But then the karate lesson guy said I had to start paying him five
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Contributed by John Shearhart on Jun 9, 2006
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Over Memorial Day weekend the WWII based series Band of Brothers played. Close to the end the historical character Major Winters says something like “When we began this war these men obeyed me because they were commanded to. Now they obey me because they trust me.”
The men learned that they
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on May 19, 2024
[004]. MESSAGE FROM A POEM - A MEMORIAL TO KENT HARRISON
This was written after Kent’s death in Townsville maybe in April 2005. We had known him since early Mt Isa days, then later when he moved to Charters Towers and then to Townsville. Kent suffered a few massive strokes but battled on after
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jan 24, 2008
Some say fish have a six second memory. So, when one fish gets caught on a hook, only six seconds later, all his fish friends are ready to get hooked again. People are like that. They see
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 9, 2002
D.L. Moody had a keen memory for names and faces. If one of his children was missing from Sunday school, he knew it, and he would do everything possible to find out why. One day he saw an absentee coming down the street, so he took off after her. She ran down the sidewalk, across the street, and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 16, 2005
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May 26, 2002, Memorial day weekend, a barge pilot passed out and hit a bridge span of I-40 over the Arkansas river. This accident dropped a 600 foot span of the bridge 62 feet into the swift flowing river below. Eleven people (and a trailer full of show horses) died as their cars and 18-wheelers
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